• Before reading: These are pre-reading activities that prepare learners for reading before they start to read a text in detail. These are designed to activate prior knowledge, introduce vocabulary and help the learners predict the content of a text by looking at pictures and titles for clues. They will also introduce skimming and sometimes scanning as a reading strategy.
• While reading: We introduce learners to a range of reading strategies while they read a text. For example:
• word attack skills like sounding out unfamiliar words
• reading glossaries • pause and check comprehension • keep going with reading a sentence or paragraph to try and understand what it means
• rereading a section • using contextual clues and picture support to work out meanings of unfamiliar words
• infer meanings
• After reading: These are post-reading activities which help the learners to recall details, to scan texts to find information, to confirm their understanding of texts, to relate texts to their own experiences and then to discuss and evaluate texts and use ideas, words and
Weeks
Term 1 1 & 2 3 & 4 5 & 6 7 & 8
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Term 2 1 & 2 3 & 4 5 & 6 7 & 8
9 & 10
Term 3 1 & 2 3 & 4 5 & 6 7 & 8
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Term 4 1 & 2 3 & 4 5 & 6 7 & 8
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Unit stories, poem, word puzzle
reports, recount, personal letter, advertisement stories, paragraphs, diary entries
instructions, information, diagrams, word puzzle, definitions poems, descriptions
stories, paragraphs, word game
diagram, information, mindmap, description, map stories, personal letter, personal account, paragraph
survey, information, table, questionnaire, language game, book review, paragraph, word puzzle
Revision practice 1: information sentences, descriptive essay, letter 10
stories, sentences, descriptions, poem, personal letter, diary talk, information, diagram, table, graph, word puzzle, report stories, poems
instructions, procedure, mindmap, language game, information play, note, poem, message
stories, personal letter, sentences, book review
table, talk, report, word puzzle, poem, dictionary definition, information, mindmap, paragraphs stories, poems, book review, personal letter definition, advertisement, poster, news report,
Revision practice 2: information, advertisements, story, book review
Please also refer to the table of text types in theOxford Successful EnglishReadingBookthat accompanies the Learner’s Book for each grade.
vocabulary from the text in their own thinking. Some of these activities are oral and others are written.
Text types and features
The CAPS specifies that teachers use three approaches to teaching language: • the text-based approach • the communicative approach
• the process orientated approach. When you use a text-based approach, it means that you show learners how a range of different texts work. For example, if you are teaching learners to read an information text like a report, you will show them the features, such as headings and diagrams, and you will explain that we use formal language in a report. When you use this approach, you help your learners to become confident, competent and critical readers and writers. The text-based approach is most successful
when you expose your learners to a wide range of texts for listening, speaking reading and writing. The following table shows all of the text types
in each unit of Oxford Successful EnglishLearner’s Book Grade 6. It includes texts that learners will use in listening, speaking, reading and writing activities.
Text types
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